Financial Wellness

J. GRADY CASH, MEd, CFP Grady Cash is a futurist and author on the topic of personal finance. He has been called the “Father of Financial Wellness” for his pioneering work on the effects of money on stress. He has been a CFP certificant for 26 years and has been quoted in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABCNews.com, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Bottom Line/Personal, and Physician’s Personal Advisory. Cash lived for two years in a Florida retirement community conducting research on his upcoming book Boomer Shock, which forecasts how aging Baby Boomers will transform retirement and retirement planning. He is a strong advocate of healthy aging. He has run the Athens, Greece marathon three times and is currently one of the top ten 800 meter runners in his age group in the United States. His unusually diverse background in finance, psychology, and wellness activism gives him a unique perspective in achieving this new healthy relationship to money. Explore "Financial Wellness" as your next health-related topic with Cash's seminars "Conquer the 7 Deadly Money Mistakes" and "Boomer Shock: Seven Inevitable Trends that Will Transform America." To read one of his essays, click here.

WILLIAM DeFOORE, PhD William DeFoore is an author, counselor, and executive coach. He brings a diverse academic background to his 35 years of counseling, coaching, and consulting with individuals, couples, families, executives, and organizations. DeFoore's speaking career has taken him throughout the United States and into several other countries, covering topics in the areas of Emotional Wellness, Emotional Intelligence In Leadership, and Positive Psychology. For the past fifteen years he has been an adjunct faculty member with Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas. He is author of five books and multiple audio programs.

Topics include:
• Goodfinding: Using the Power of Positive Psychology to Enhance Workplace Wellness
• Financial Health, Emotional Wealth: Mastering the Economics of Emotional and Financial Wellness
• Leadership and the Emotional Environment: The Art and Science of Creating a Positive Emotional Atmosphere at Work
• Healthy Anger and Your Health: Using Healthy Emotions for Total Wellness

ROXANNE EMMERICH Author of Thank God It's Monday: How to Build a Motivating Workplace and Finding Solutions for Workplace Problems, Roxanne was honored as the nation's top entrepreneur in an industry of 50,000 businesses. Roxanne is trained in organizational management, and challenges conventional wisdom, replacing it with commonsense, easy-to-apply, practical ideas. Roxanne Emmerich is a media expert, with appearances on CNN, CBS, and over 200 television and radio organizations and 500 newspapers and magazines.